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Add some more sparks like dagger, blood, and gory, and then, a mystery story." |'''Dreamfinder''' ''playing an [[Ominous Pipe Organ]] in the Tales of Terror portion of the original Journey into Imagination.''}}

 

** Disneyland Paris replaces Monstro with the [http://www.flickr.com/photos/figmentsimagination/3830480712/ Cave of Wonders] from ''Aladdin''.

** Tokyo Disney Sea recently reused the Monstro concept for a [http://www.flickr.com/photos/meanderingmouse/694677102/sizes/l/ gift shop]. He doesn't have any teeth and the merchandise stands look like shipwrecks he's eaten, meaning less nightmares and more [[Narm Charm]].

** And it is 10 times worse at night

* [[wikipedia:Incidents at Disney parks|This link]] lists all the accidents that have happen at Disneyland, including ''deaths'' and characters acting in a weird way.

* On the subject of "[[A Bug's Life|It's Tough to be a Bug]]", the show ''does'' scare a lot of children (for one thing, it's loud, and for another you don't really need to be told to be afraid of things like a [[Big Creepy-Crawlies|giant termite]] who spits poison at you, [[Giant Spider|GiantSpiders]], killer bees who ''sting you'', or a gigantic can of pesticide). One guidebook includes this classic one-line review, "Finally this generation gets it's 'Snow White's Scary Adventures.'"

** ''[[Muppet*Vision 3D]]'' is pretty damn tame in comparison, but the character Waldo (another herky-jerky hologram out of the [[Uncanny Valley]]) has freaked out his share of viewers.

** Honey I Shrunk The Audience: The hologram lion, and those mice crawling up your legs...

* "Snow White's Scary Adventures", for those not in the know, is a ride that strings all the most ''horrifying'' scenes from ''Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs'' into the space of a few minutes. They periodically try to change it so that it isn't as intense. (As a matter of fact, it was originally simply named "Snow White's Adventures". They changed the name for the purposes of truth-in-advertising when the area was remodelled in the early 1980's.) But given that the Wicked Queen/Witch still jumps out and screams at you repeatedly, it's still the scariest damn ride in the park.

** The [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Th7LJFzG1o8 original Disney World ride] ends with the witch dropping a huge diamond on you, cackling "Good-bye, dearie! EEE-HEE-HEE!"

** There was a serious uproar when it was replaced by a Winnie The Pooh-themed ride at Walt Disney World, but maybe this is why? (Or WDW just doesn't expect today's kids to be familiar with Mr. Toad...)

** Granted, The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh still has the "Heffalumps and Woozles" sequence. So creepy...

* At Disneyland, there's good reason to be scared. Big Thunder Death Mountain, anyone? That ride's been closed due to sucking chest wounds more times than I can count.

** Sucking chest wounds? Try [[wikipedia:Big Thunder Mountain Railroad|near-decapitation.]]

** The context of the scene alone is frightening: a RABBIT being held hostage by a FOX and a BEAR...if you get the drift ( a clue: the bubbling sound of a unseen cauldron). And the two cackling vulture commenting the scene afterwards... brrrrr.

** What about the ride vehicles for Splash Mountain at Disneyland? At Disney World in Florida, the logs have adequate row seating and a good amount handles to grip on to. At the one in California, the seating consists of straddling one beam going from the front to the back of the log, and only two measly handlebars on each side keep you from feeling like you'll fly out into the air on each drop.

* The Enchanted Tiki Room was fun and tame for the most part, with cheerful singing birds and flowers. However, many a youngster was frightened by when the show briefly took a sinister turn, with the grotesque face carvings of tiki gods on the wall suddenly uttering sinister chants (depending on where you're sitting, sometimes right next to you), as more and more join the chorus. The sudden thunderstorm right after this scene didn't quite help things.

* It's long dead, but the ExtraTERRORestrial Alien Encounter. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UGxRYDc9xw Have some, won't you?]

* The long-dead Submarine Ride, which would take riders in a cramped and rather claustrophobic sub through a small man-made lake, where outside the portholes were underwater scenes consisting of fake and somewhat creepy-looking plastic sea creatures... including a ''definitely'' creepy-looking giant squid that "attacks" your sub and is driven off with electric shocks. All the claustrophobic fun of the original is available in the much tamer [[Finding Nemo]] version (at Disneyland; the WDW version was completely dismantled). Luckily, the cute story takes your attention off how horribly cramped the small submarine is, and the fact that if the thing took on water, it would be a bunch of bodies scrambling desperately towards the steep, narrow staircase.

** Even the [[Finding Nemo]] version is not devoid of scares. From "colliding" with an undersea mine (complete with an explosive boom, a sudden gush of bubbles and the submarine rocking from the impact while alarm bells and warning lights go on) to the eerie darkness right before a huge angler fish looms right in front of the riders porthole, all teeth and lifeless glowing eyes, the ride definitely has its moments of terror.

* The Norway section of EPCOT's World Showcase features a boat ride to a three headed troll who casts a spell on you to "DISAPPEAR, DISAPPEAR!" Your boat is then sent rocketing backwards through an Arctic landscape with a polar bear growling at you, then starts approaching a waterfall so that you think you're about to go over it backwards. Thankfully, the ride doesn't quite go ''that'' far.

** That ride would be Maelstrom. And the only proper response to it is "Oh my god, oh my god, get me out of here, that tree stump is STARING AT ME!"

** Some people can get scared when the ride goes outside over the crowd briefly.

* "''[[Finding Nemo|Crush's Coaster]]''" at the Studio's section in Disneyland Paris. Hoo boy. At first it's fairly nice (even though you're mostly in the dark), going through some of the movie. ''And then''....you get to the part with Bruce and the sharks. What's worse is that if you've seen the movie, then you know exactly what's coming when you see the rusty ship pipes, and the shadows of the sharks on the wall whilst they chant "Fish are friends! Not food!". Suddenly you're propelled upwards with Bruce 'chasing' you, and a sudden flash lights up this model of Bruce sticking out through the ship, ''before you're plunged into the pitch black section of the ride, spinning every way known to man''.

* EPCOT's iconic ''Spaceship Earth'' is responsible for a fair amount of [[Nightmare Fuel]]. For those who have never been, you ride a neverending chain of vehicles (Haunted Mansion style) through the giant geosphere. At the top, the vehicles make a 180 rotation to descend to ground level at an angle that would be too steep facing forwards without restraints. For many years, this happened in a [[Nothing Is Scarier|nearly empty planetarium dome with nothing but some tear-jerkingly epic music]]. Some people would become afraid that the ride would [[Everything Trying to Kill You|change to a roller coaster and drop them off a cliff backwards without restraint]], even though that would be impossible with the ride vehicles being chained together through the entire track. Frightened riders would abandon their vehicle and stumble out into the black void of the dome.

** This is [[It Gets Worse|even worse]], since not only do employees have to rescue this frightened visitor but there's [[Darkness Equals Death|stuff hiding in the pitch black room]] that you could get hurt with. Mostly effects equipment, some maintenance tools, and a scissors lift to the hatch on the roof of the sphere, and of course the heavy duty ride vehicles themselves rolling through the room. An audio clip of a calm voice telling your that your car is going to rotate had been added to the ride, and was sort of a mood killer AND couldn't communicate with the foreign-language visitors who were most likely to abandon ship once it spins around.

* One attraction that this troper remembers vividly is in the line for the Jungle Cruise. It is set up to resemble a trophy room/curio shop with various pieces of jungle memorabilia. One of the gimmicks is a small cage holding a "Goliath Bird-Eating Spider". Anyone who gets close to look inside is scared out out of their minds when the cage JUMPS AT THEM.

** First, the doors open at the top, just so you can see how far off the ground you are. Then they close again, and the rest of the ride occurs in total darkness. The "elevator" is actually on a belt (rather than rigged with a counterweight like a traditional elevator), and it can (and will) ''push'' you down faster than the acceleration due to gravity. And the ride is randomized every time, so the number and length of drops is different even on back-to-back trips.

** The Tower of Terror itself is a very creepy ride, but it was intended to be (not for small kids) but one of the scariest parts is when you're walking up to the "hotel". You're completely surrounded by lush, overgrown forestry and the walk is at least a minute or two. Doesn't sound too scary right? Well, imagine you're walking up there. By yourself. And old music from the 30s is playing around you. God... That isolation really gets to you and almost makes you feel likes something's going to jump out at you any second.

* Many rides, mostly older dark rides, rely on [[By the Lights of Their Eyes]] for a cheap scare. This can really frighten small children. Even the Disneyland Railroad in California had little red eyes light up in the darkness at the level with your ankles when it passed into a tunnel behind the Haunted Mansion. By the time Splash Mountain opened with a window into the end of the ride, the train narrator began promoting Splash from the start and the red eyes were completely left unmentioned, making it eerier. This space is now brightly lit with a fake branch sticking out of the rock.

* My favorite part of the Indiana Jones ride's line at Disneyland (that sadly doesn't seem to work anymore) is {{spoiler|the fake bamboo pole in the room of spikes. Push on it and [[Hell Is That Noise|a loud grinding noise]] signals that the spikes on the ceiling are s l o w l y lowering onto your heads! Perfect for terrorizing the line of tourists behind you! Unfortunately the spikes haven't moved in years and the pole doesn't seem trigger the sounds.}}

** When the ride first opened, that segment of the line was more extreme; when the pole was pushed or pulled at the right time, there was a sudden '''*BANG*''' and the ceiling with the spikes in it dropped a few inches. I assume it was altered to avoid injuring taller guests.

** A four-year-old kid was killed there in 2000–it's on the "incidents" link at the top of the page.

* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRt6ZtqUmwk Let's take a look at Mickey and Minnie's original costumes back when Disneyland first opened, shall we?.]

* On Expedition Everest, The Yeti no longer functions. This hasn't been fixed because it has been discovered that every time the Yeti figure swings its arm, it causes damage to the rides overall structure. So now it just has a flashing light over it,which makes the thing even more horrifying.

** When you are on the chain lift it just ''keeps going''...And then you realize just high up you are...

** This troper has never seen the Carnotaurus, though she's ridden this ride twice. Her head stays covered.

* ''[[Sleeping Beauty (Disney film)|Sleeping Beauty]]'' ended with no indication that Maleficent survived her [[Disney Villain Death]]. However, the walkthrough at Disneyland's Sleeping Beauty Castle includes a scene of her shadow emerging from behind a corner, accompanied by her evil laugh. When the walkthrough first opened in 1957, the shadow scared so many guests, the Imagineers removed the scene. The attraction then ended with Phillip awakening Aurora with [[True Love's Kiss]]. The current version tries to lessen the scare factor by following up Maleficent's potential resurrection with a recreation of [[Funny Moments (Sugar Wiki)|Flora and Merryweather arguing over what color to make Aurora's dress]].

* [[Star Wars|Star Tours: The Adventures Continue]] has a cameo of REX from the ride's first incarnation, occasionally spouting lines from said first incarnation. Thing is, they are rather glitchy and context-free, causing a rather eerie effects in the same room as another more light-hearted event.

* [[The Nightmare Before Christmas|Jack and Sally]] are '''FACE CHARACTERS.'''

** This troper now really wants to shake hands with the Pumpkin King.

 

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